In figurative phrases: to burn daylight: to burn candles in the daytime, also to waste or consume the daylight. So †to burn seasonable weather: to…
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to take advantage (5) to burn seasonable weather1597 In figurative phrases: to burn daylight: to burn candles in the daytime, also to waste or consume the daylight. So †to burn seasonable weather: to… to miss of ——a1628 intransitive. To fail to take advantage of. Cf. sense 13a. Obsolete. to make a balk of good ground1637 Hence figurative, esp. in to make a balk of good ground: to waste or throw away a good chance. Subcategories:— pass by unused (2) |
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